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• Set of contact prints made from The Times Tutankhamun photographs.
• Most of the photographs were taken by The Times photographer.
• There are also a significant number of copies of Harry Burton's photographs within this group.
• Many of the contact prints are made from 35mm film, as well as a variety of larger prints.

Restricted access file.

• P. E. Newberry's copy of The Tomb of Tut-ankh-amen: Statement with documents, as to the events which occurred in Egypt in the Winter of 1923-24 leading to the ultimate break with the Egyptian Government.
• "Published for private circulation only by Cassell and Company, London, etc. 1924."
• Incorporates Howard Carter's original documentation, see TAA ii.21.

• Letters and documents relating to Howard Carter's dispute with the Egyptian Government after the European team members' wives were barred from entering the tomb to view the contents of Tutankhamun's sarcophagus after the lid had been lifted (12 February 1924).
• The dispute on the following day, 13 February 1924, eventually resulted in Howard Carter and the rest of the team being locked out of the tomb until 13 January 1925.
• Includes correspondence between Sir Alan Gardiner and the Foreign Office, Egyptologists and others in 1924.
• Referred to as the "Carter Affair" or "Tutankhamun Affair".

• Complete set of three volumes of Howard Carter's popular account of the discovery and excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb, all first editions, no dust jackets:
  • Carter, Howard and Mace, A. C. 1923. The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen Volume 1 [discovery, Antechamber and opening of the Burial chamber]
  • Carter, Howard 1927. The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen Volume 2 [Burial chamber, opening the sarcophagus, the state chariots, opening of the three coffins and examination of Tutankhamun's body and wrappings]
  • Carter, Howard 1933. The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen Volume 3 [Treasury and Annexe]

Documentation and correspondence regarding the planned Tutankhamun publication project by the Griffith Institute.

• Photograph of Professor R. G. Harrison, Derby Professor of Anatomy, University of Liverpool, with Dr Z. Iskander and others, examining Tutankhamun's remains in the king's tomb, KV62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
• The original photograph was taken on 4 December 1968 by Mr Lynton Reeve, Department of Anatomy, University of Liverpool.

• Several tin plate canisters for 8- by 10-inch glass-plate negatives.
• Measurements (a) 25.6 x 19.6 x 11.3 cm; (b) 25.8 x 19.6 x 9.1 cm [TAA ii.25.1-2].
• Bear labels including: 'Sensitive to Light! To be opened only in the presence of the receiver'
• Originally contained the negatives created by Harry Burton during the Tutankhamun excavation. The canisters no longer contain the negatives.

Miscellaneous correspondence not part of the Tutankhamun Archive donated by Phyllis Walker in 1945 and later.

One letter from Percy White, addressed to Howard Carter, dated April 30, 1930. Percy White (1852-1938) was an English novelist and editor who was appointed as an English lecturer at the Egyptian University in Cairo, 1911-1925. White was an old friend of Howard Carter and helped edit and prepare one volume of Carter’s The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen ii (1927). Four pages, mainly social content with a reference to Carter’s work in Tutankhamun’s tomb nearing completion.

Letters sent to Howard Carter at the time of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. These letters were almost immediately passed on by Carter to A. C. Mace to deal with.

• Telegram (telegraph) from the U.S.A. regarding Tutankhamun discovery.
• 08-02-1923.
• Addressed to Lord Carnarvon from Lefkowitz & Pitofsky.
• Regarding attaining exclusive rights to textiles and designs.

• Telegram (telegraph) from the U.S.A. regarding Tutankhamun discovery.
• 17-02-1923
• To Howard Carter from Murray Garsson.
• Regarding exclusive motion picture rights.

• 61 glass plate negatives: 56 show the removal of objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun, and 5 others show objects not connected to the tomb.
• Created or accumulated by A. E. P. B. Weigall.
• TAA Archive ii.4.1-56
  • Taken between December 1922 and early 1923.
  • Many, if not all, appear to be rephotographed prints, probably from a newspaper archive (Daily Mail?). Some of the rephotographed prints have been manually edited using paint or ink.
  • All records the removal of objects from Tutankhamun's tomb, or show replicas of tomb objects made for and displayed at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, London, in 1924.
  • All objects recorded are from the Antechamber.
• TAA ii.4.57-61
  • A series of negatives, each showing a different mummified body, all still wrapped except for one, and also an anthropoid coffin. None of these objects is connected with Tutankhamun's tomb.
  • All images taken at the same location (perhaps Thebes), and, presumably, at the same time.

Correspondence between Howard Carter, A. H. Gardiner, P. Lacau, and P. Engelbach, concerning a wḥm amulet from the tomb of Tutankhamun.

• Photographs showing the transport of objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun to the Laboratory tomb (KV 15), Valley of the Kings.
• Taken by anonymous photographers.
• None of the photographs in this group were taken by Harry Burton.

• Photograph, photographer not known.
• Caption: 'Entrance to Tut-Ankh-Amen tomb, under tomb of Ramses VI.'

• Photograph, photographer not known.
• Caption: 'A chariot wheel - covered with gold.'

• Photograph, photographer not known.
• Caption: 'A ‘Royal chair’ from the tomb.'

• Photograph, photographer not known.
• Caption: 'Box containing the King's Robes.'

• Photograph, photographer not known.
• Caption: 'Removal of a Chariot, a sword and various small objects, on the tray.'

• Photograph, photographer not known.
• Caption: 'King Tut-Ankh-Amen's ‘toilet Box’.'

• Photograph, photographer not known.
• Caption: 'Small stools of ivory and ebony.'

• Photograph.
• Caption: 'One side of the ‘Royal Typhon Couch’ covered with gold as the other two.'

• Photograph, photographer not known.
• Caption: '‘Gold Box’ with figures of men embossed all around.'

• Photograph, photographer not known.
• Caption: 'Four trays containing small treasures from the tomb.'

• Photograph, photographer not known.
• Caption: 'Mr. Carter & Callender carry the King's jewel Box.'

• Photograph, photographer not known.
• Caption: 'Removing a Couch from the tomb. Tourist (sic) surrounding the wall which incloses (sic) the entrance.

• Photograph, photographer not known.
• Caption: 'One of the three Chariots found in the tomb covered with gold embossed with figures and designs.'

• Postcard
• Photograph, photographer not known.
• Photograph taken on 24 January 1923.
• Howard Carter, assisted by Walter Hauser, manoeuvring one side of the cow-headed couch (73) into a packing case for transfer to the nearby 'laboratory' (tomb KV15, of Sethos II).